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Associate Editor William Bowen separated wheat from chaff, and had enough unused words to fill a few storage bins, but none so large as those grain storage bins in Kansas that are shown on the cover...
...cheaper penicillin and longer-lasting blood plasma. Projects now in the works promise a wild-green-yonder of even greater farm abundance-and, of course, threaten bigger surpluses. The department's scientists are breeding new, higher-yielding varieties of wheat; they are trying to devise ways of making grain crops and grasses add nitrogen to the soil instead of subtracting it; they are combatting the boll weevil and other crop-destroying insects by sterilizing male insects in laboratories, then releasing them in the fields to compete with other males for the available females. The U.S., says an Agriculture Department...
Supply management got a critical test last year in Freeman's new program for corn, barley and other "feed grains" (so called because they are mainly grown for livestock feed). Freeman raised feed grain support prices. But in order to qualify for crop loans, farmers had to cut their feed grain acreage by at least 20%. Farmers who did so received "diversion payments" equal to 50% of the value of the crops they would normally have grown on the diverted acres. A similar feed grain program, with lower diversion payments, is in operation again this year...
...block, there was almost a plaintive note in his concluding question: "Can one be expected to achieve good farming results under such conditions?'' He had a ready answer: "Of course not," for this kind of thing explained why Kazahkstan last year delivered 8.2 million tons of grain to the state instead of the planned 14.1 million tons...
...less than a year. During his brief tenure, Pysin tried his best to coax more production from the collectivized peasantry. He even squeezed in a month-long tour of U.S. farm lands last September, hoping to pick up a few pointers. Alas, nothing seemed to help. The Soviet grain harvest last year was 16 million tons less than the quota under the seven-year plan, and Nikita Khrushchev's promise to give the Soviet people more bread again was thwarted. The fall guy for 1962 naturally was Pysin; this year it could very well be Volovchenko...